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Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank Deputy Joan Collins for bringing forward such important legislation and to her staff for all the work they did on this. I fully support this legislation to oblige employers to make contributions from the wages of an employee to a trade union of his or her choice if requested just as they already do with pension payments and other voluntary contributions as has been outlined by the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: ...see the development of at least eight large brownfield sites. This will lead to 10,000 new housing units being built and more than double the population occupying the same physical space. I welcome these developments but I note that we must have more three and four-bedroom properties. We are only getting studios and one and two-bedroom properties. I represent a constituency with a deep...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...here from Deputy Boyd Barrett's party for the first hour. There was nobody here from the Social Democrats for the first hour. They were not reading our motion, whatever they were planning. They were planning to come in to see what vitriol or depth they could stoop to in order to insult democratically elected people here. I wear the proud badge of Liam Lynch, a freedom fighter who was...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — that Article 29.1 of Bunreacht na hÉireann states "Ireland affirms its devotion to the ideal of peace and friendly co-operation amongst nations founded on international justice and morality"; — that Article 29.2 of Bunreacht na hÉireann states "Ireland affirms its adherence to the principle of the pacific settlement...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: ...previous budgets. This is a budget to buy time for a broken system which the Government does not have the political will to fix. It is a budget which will increase inequality in this country. Ireland, like almost every country in the world, has seen a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom of our society to the top over the past few decades. In Ireland today, two billionaires...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: Anything extra going into people's pockets is welcome, even if they were underwhelming increases of €4 in some cases. What I saw today, however, as did most people in this country, was a Government that is out of touch. We live in a time of declining standards of living. Wages have fallen behind inflation and there are record figures for homelessness and evictions, as well as record...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...significant additional funding and staffing for local authorities to address voids, and a significant impact has been made in this regard. There is a very different set of circumstances regarding the energy requirements and building standards that have rightly been introduced. It takes considerable time to bring the houses around to a high level of thermal efficiency. That is important...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...families in long-term homelessness. It is absolutely a priority for Government and for local authorities to try to address that. The Deputy also spoke about the inconsistencies in cost-rental income limits. There are a range of supports across all income thresholds, including the First Home scheme. Again, we can liaise with local authorities. 8 o’clock Deputy Mick Barry...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: ...the viability of the sector; - nursing home capacity, where under-utilised for long-term care, can be used for "step-down" transitional care; - according to the PwC report, commissioned by Nursing Homes Ireland, entitled "Challenges for Nursing Homes in the Provision of Older Persons Care - Private and Voluntary Nursing Home Sector", the nursing home operational cost for care per...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: ...rendition. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Member's motion from the Social Democrats. The National Economic and Social Council made a recommendation in its Private Rental in Ireland report last February to consider Danish-style reforms to our laws on vacant properties. In Denmark, property owners must report to municipal authorities if their property is vacant for...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...for a referendum to create a constitutional right to suitable and affordable homes for all according to their needs to ensure that we never get into this situation again. The State should immediately start building homes which should be a mixture of traditional social housing, public housing and affordable cost rental units and affordable housing. Public housing has been successful all...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...office, to be administered and spent at the discretion of the elected members for that area; and — consider amending section 48 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, to facilitate these changes. I have put this motion forward because this issue is coming up frequently in communities, particularly where a lot of development is being built and is on the agenda....

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: ...budget had two key tasks; to cap and reduce energy prices and to target supports at those most in need. I pointed out that the Government did not fundamentally succeed in either task. While we welcome some of the initiatives, such as the once-off payment, the most straightforward, effective way to deal with soaring energy costs is to cap the energy companies and the units. The...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...the Irish language in terms of naming State bodies and so on. It is an important way of popularising and bringing the language into normal use but I cannot help but be a little bit cynical when it comes to this naming. I wonder if the name is being changed from "Irish Water" to "Uisce Éireann" because of the deep unpopularity of Irish Water, the dislike that many ordinary people...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...for All sets us on a path of delivering 300,000 new homes between now and the end of 2030, including 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable-purchase homes and 18,000 cost-rental homes, as referred to by Deputy Joan Collins. It is a plan with genuine ambition, guaranteed investment and fresh ideas to deliver housing for people to create a long-term sustainable housing system. Housing for...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts: Motion (30 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...nurses screaming "how long more" but the drivers not being able to move. Then we built a project with no proper helipad. 7 o’clock Imagine in this day and age having a helipad on top of a three-storey building in which there is supposed to be a nice ambience, with little noise, for sick children to recover and having helicopters land there. The greed and the egos got in the...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister for coming in. I acknowledge that he has done a lot of hard work. Instead of everything being negative, it should be very positive going forward. These are family homes. Families want to get this situation sorted out and I believe the Minister will get this sorted out. Let us stop playing a political game of football. The most important thing is getting the houses...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: - that Ireland signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007 and ratified the UNCRPD in 2018; - that, notwithstanding a commitment in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future in 2020, Ireland has not yet signed or ratified the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD, making Ireland one of just...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Acting Chairman. I have been at stalls in my constituency over the last couple of weeks to build for the demonstration on 18 June by the Cost of Living Coalition. There is much anger and frustration from workers and people on social welfare. I was talking to a young woman who has two children. She said she has been really impacted by the rise in the cost of her shop. She made...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage (7 Apr 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...about my time working in London, England, in 1988. At that time, I was entitled to five weeks' sick pay with my employer from the day I started the employment. That was a long time ago now but here in Ireland we are only talking about introducing a statutory sick pay scheme now. That is a big problem. We are one of the few countries in Europe not to have mandatory sick pay and I am...